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Out of all four I would go with Laravel. They have a ton of tutorials at laracasts.com that make it really easy to learn. On another note, I would seriously consider looking into Yii2, before making a final decision

If you want to go the Node.js route, checkout socket.io, they have demo of a live streaming chat on their homepage http://socket.io/demos/chat/ If you want to stick with PHP and jQuery, just create a setInterval script to update your chat box every 10 seconds or so. <div id="chatContainer"></div> <script> setInterval(function(){ $.post('getChat.php', postData, function(data){ $("#chatContainer").html(data.msg); }, 'json'); }, 10000); </script>